Lack of evidence for significant neuronal loss in laminae I-III of the spinal dorsal horn of the rat in the chronic constriction injury model

Pain

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 144-150

  Polgar E ^a   Gray, S ^a   Riddell, J S ^a   Todd, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell death; Disector method; Immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGATION; MALE; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

EID: 4344618736     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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